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Does anyone here know how to park? Bedlam reigns in Tesla's Fremont lot

Mike Moffitt, SFGATE| on
February 1, 2017

Hi, Honey. I'm held up at work. Don't plan on me for dinner:

This boxed-in car is just one example of the creative parking at Tesla's Fremont factory that inspired the Tesla Parking Lot Instagram account. Click for more. (Note: Photos were not modified by SFGate. License plates were obscured prior to being posted on the account.)

This boxed-in car is just one example of the creative parking at Tesla's Fremont factory that inspired the Tesla Parking Lot Instagram account. Click for more. (Note: Photos were not modified by SFGate. License plates were obscured prior to being posted on the account.)

Does anyone here know how to park? Bedlam reigns in Tesla's Fremont lot

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A parking lot with its own Instagram account would seem one the last places people on social media would flock to.

But Tesla's Fremont parking lot is not most parking lots. Judging from the photos uploaded by the clever, unnamed employee running the Tesla Parking Lot account, the sprawling lot is the Wild West Dodge City of company parking lots. There's no sheriff in town, and anything goes.

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The lot appears to have too few spaces for the number of employees working at the factory. Employees routinely flout parking prohibitions and apparently view the painted lines defining spaces as suggestions, not hard-and-fast rules. The pictures of boxed-in cars and scofflaw vehicles are often captioned with sarcastic observations.

The haphazard placement of cars prompted one reader to comment that lot resembled a Midwest parking lot after it snows — that is, after the lines are covered up.

The sheer number of parkers behaving badly might seem ironic in the lot of the factory that builds cars which can parallel-park themselves (the Model S and Model X.) But most employees don't drive the Model S or Model X, of course.

Once in a while, a car will get towed. But as the video shows, even that can go awry.